{"id":3751,"date":"2021-03-31T20:57:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T00:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=3751"},"modified":"2021-04-05T08:18:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T12:18:48","slug":"blackberry-q4-results-spur-possible-sale-of-mobile-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/blackberry-q4-results-spur-possible-sale-of-mobile-patents\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry Q4 Results Spur Possible Sale of Mobile Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BlackBerry said yesterday that fourth-quarter revenue fell short of expectations and said it was in talks with a North American company about selling patents from its mobile technology portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its portfolio mainly includes mobile devices, messaging and wireless networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That report sent BlackBerry shares down 3% in late trading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Revenue in the three months to January fell to $215 million, or 3 cents a share, in net income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Revenue was below the company&#8217;s own forecast and below analysts&#8217; average estimate of $244.8 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, revenues from licenses and other activities totaled $50 million in the quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wall Street expects $238.2 million and earnings per share of 2 cents for the quarter, with full-year revenue of $1.019 billion and earnings of 13 cents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, you may view the original story from ZDNet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackBerry said yesterday that fourth-quarter revenue fell short of expectations and said it was in talks with a North American company about selling patents from its mobile technology portfolio. Its portfolio mainly includes mobile devices, messaging and wireless networks. That report sent BlackBerry shares down 3% in late trading. Revenue in the three months to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-3751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobility","tag-blackberry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3784,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions\/3784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}